Month: April 2023

Biblical Words and Theological Meanings: Sanctification as Consecration for Transformation

Biblical Words and Theological Meanings: Sanctification as Consecration for Transformation

ABSTRACT: Protestants have traditionally understood sanctification as God’s work of gradual spiritual transformation over the entire life of every believer. Recent biblical scholarship has argued that such a definition does not actually correspond with the meaning of biblical terminology for sanctification, which refers to a single and definitive setting apart of believers at conversion. Some have... »

Israel troops out of Gaza as cease-fire takes effect

The Israeli military has said that all of its ground forces have been removed from Gaza as a 72-hour cease-fire went into effect Tuesday. The truce, agreed upon Monday by Israel and Hamas, took effect at 8 a.m. local time Tuesday (1 a.m. Eastern Time). The Times of Israel reported that a barrage of rockets were fired from Gaza minutes before the cease-fire was due to take effect. The paper also re... »

Today’s #PENTECOSTAL lesson

Today’s lesson is compiled and edited by Dr. Paul Lee Born Delivered Lesson 1 from the series, “Discipleship” http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com Related items Today’s Lesson Today’s... »

A Plea to Pastors for Easter Weekend

After a year filled with lockdowns and online options and outdoor worship services and socially-distanced indoor services and mask mandates and hand sanitizer by the truckload, Easter 2021 has the potential to be a very large weekend, indeed. Besides the emergence from a global pandemic, Easter weekend is one of the two largest church attendance... The post A Plea to Pastors for Easter Weekend app... »